[Chore] Simplify cleveland's internals & public api

Description

This MR aims to refactor and simply a few small things in cleveland's internals and public API.

Please see each commit's description for details.

Related issue(s)

These opportunities for refactoring came up while working on #737 (closed)

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• Tests (see short guidelines)

  • If I added new functionality, I added tests covering it.
  • If I fixed a bug, I added a regression test to prevent the bug from silently reappearing again.

• Documentation

  • I checked whether I should update the docs and did so if necessary:
    • Root README and other README.md files
    • Haddock
    • docs/
  • I updated changelog files of all affected packages released to Hackage if my changes are externally visible.

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